Tashtego Point (65°44′S 62°9′W / 65.733°S 62.150°W) is a rocky point marking the east end of the ridge at the south side of Stubb Glacier, on the east coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Surveyed and photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Tashtego, the Wampanoag harpooner on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Further reading
edit- Defense Mapping Agency 1992, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica, P 276
References
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This article incorporates public domain material from "Tashtego Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
External links
edit- Tashtego Point on USGS website
- Tashtego Point on AADC website
- Tashtego Point on SCAR website
- Tashtego Point on marineregions.org
- Tashtego Point area map
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